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Let mercy overcome misery
It is the Year of Mercy, and people are starving for God’s mercy, even if they don’t recognize it. I was pleasantly surprised to see...
Anger and citizenship
The Iowa caucuses are in the rear-view mirror, the New Hampshire primary looms on the horizon, and by most media accounts, the leitmotif...
Life in the balance
This past weekend close to 4,000 people rallied at the Colorado capitol building to encourage our state to protect life at every stage....
A Ukrainian Christmas-at-the-crossroads
When Ukraine celebrated Christmas two weeks ago, there were ample reasons for pessimism about that long-suffering country’s future. The...
Dear Father: Please stop it.
In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm 22.3 of...
Looking toward November 8
To redeploy a phrase from President Ford, our “long national nightmare” – in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign – will...
My vision: Form disciples in 2016
As the calendar year begins we celebrate two important feasts, the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God and the Epiphany. With the first...
Liberal racism bares its fangs
Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use the term. But it’s...
Christmas and a world upside-down
Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first letter to the Christians...
Remembering two great bishops
We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped the notice of many that...
The contrasts of Advent 2015
I can’t remember another Advent when the contrast was so stark. As Catholics we are preparing our hearts and homes to celebrate the...
Books for Christmas
It’s been a good reading year and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not “holiday”) shopping list: God or...
Let your family culture set the tone for Advent
My husband and I recently celebrated our fourth anniversary of being received into the Catholic Church. Our conversion is still somewhat...
Synod-2015, Revisited
As I write, just before Thanksgiving, it’s been over a month since Synod-2015 finished its work. Yet there is still no official...
The Advent of mercy
We are about to begin the season of Advent, when we prepare to welcome Jesus with the joy of those who have been rescued from their sins....